Guild Wars 2

I have been checking out How the revenant works, skills and what not.

I just noticed that it has awful condition removal and stun breakers, so In a sense do you have to choose a Legend that either has those two?

For example, The Shiro does not have condi removal but the Dwarf has one? Shiro has only 1 stun breaker, I imagine Rev will be hard to play against really good players

If you are going to pair two legends with little to no condition removal, you better compensate with something else (Lyssa runes, perhaps?). Revenant actually has quite a few options for dealing with conditions, but there are going to be people screaming about how bad Revenant is against conditions because they want to max offense without making any sacrifices.

One thing worth mentioning is that you can get stun break and a little condition removal on legend swap from the Invocation line.

Hey sticker,

Most builds are either solid with stunbreaks or solid vs. condis, but not both at the same time. The shiro stance for example has a stunbreak with essentially no cooldown, but an energy cost instead. You also get a stunbreak and condi cleanse on legend swap if you take invocation, which helps hold things together nicely.

But the other thing to realize is that revenant has ways of almost hardcountering condis and CCs if you take the right build, while invocation just helps manage it a little bit. Run Mallyx/X with herald, corruption, and retribution (a condi tank build essentially). You basically get permanent resistance if you manage skills correctly and near permanent stability through F2, enhanced bulwark, and the stab on dodge minor trait in retribution. In the last beta that build with glint felt like a new and improved version of the 2013 spirit ranger, but the next beta balance notes are making it a bit less OP. Mainly redeeming protection gave it perma-prot with F2, but now its being merged with Eye for an Eye to share a 45 second CD for 3 seconds of prot (and the taunt proc.. meh). But it will have decently high weakness uptime as well to compensate.

But yeah in general zerker shiro/glint builds will be pretty condi weak and focus fire weak, but thats more due to a lack of invulns. Infuse Light, the Glint heal is the best tool the revenant has to deal with short burst condi application and focus fire though, as its instant cast so can work through stuns in place of a stunbreak.